The longest set of HARPS measurements ever made has firmly established the nature of the smallest and fastest-orbiting exoplanet known, CoRoT-7b, revealing its mass as five times that of Earth's.

A simulation developed by scientists at Washington University in St Louis has suggested that the atmosphere of the extra-solar planet discovered recently, has components of rock in gaseous form and ...

Tidally locked with its star and orbiting very close to it, the exoplanet Corot-7b is hot enough to melt rock on its star-facing side. Its atmosphere consists of the components of silicate rocks in ...